We need to make a new word for those who have kept the truth from the people.

[grasswire]

I'm speaking of the betrayals of the past fifty years particularly. Not just those who were in positions of power, but those who actively worked with/for them. Pundits. Civil service employees. Bureaucrats. Clergy. Academics.

In prior eras, words were invented. Quisling. Wikipedia says the following about the term quisling:

"The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in an editorial published on 15 April 1940, entitled "Quislings everywhere" after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany after it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself. The editorial asserted: "To writers, the word Quisling is a gift from the gods. If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor...they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters. Actually it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous."

We need a word that defines the particular stench of the collaborateurs of our era, to be turned into a noun to be used in perpetuity.

We also need some songs for children to memorialize the evil. Just as "Ring around the Rosy" was written about the Great Plague. We need songs about the evil people. I'm sure someone could write a ditty about Dr. Condi.

[lonestarnot]

1. LIAR still works for me.

[Cleita]

4. Me too. Plain, simple and to the point with no

way the meaning can be changed by spin. Liar, liar and LIAR!

[lonestarnot]

5. When I'm really hot MOTHERFUCKING LIAR works too.

:evilgrin:

[laughingliberal]

10. That works. Criminal is good, too. nt

[mmonk]

20. First thing that came to my mind.

It works with an uneducated public that is unfamiliar with other terminology.

[Newsjock]

2. Scooters

Rummies
Rovers

[grasswire]

11. I like this line of thought...

..it's in the spirit of the term Quisling.

How about Rehnquist?

Who has been the biggest betrayer?

[csziggy]

3. Muzzlers - they try to muzzle the whistleblowers n/t

[JDPriestly]

7. And they muzzle the truth.

[csziggy]

14. Yes! n/t

[grasswire]

15. How about muzzlethugs? n/t

Brainstorm, peeps, brainstorm.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Obfiscators aka Muddies

They lie to muddy the waters...helps some/other lies slip by unseen.

[hlthe2b]

8. Accomplist

[Motown_Johnny]

9. .

President Dubya



President Dubya had a cabinet

ee i ee i oh

and in that cabinet he had a security adviser

ee i ee i oh

with a missed clue here and a missed clue there

here a missed clue there a missed clue everywhere a missed clue

President Dubya had a cabinet

ee i ee i oh




Feel free to add more lyrics, I left "with a lie lie here and a lie lie there" open for others to work with

[midnight]

12. Great song.

[grasswire]

13. okay I can do this too

President Dubya had a chair
EIEIO
He thought the weapons were under there
EIEIO
With a bomb bomb here
And a mine mine there
Here a bomb there a mine
Everywhere a laugh laugh


Okay I'm stuck

[Myrina]

16. "Politician"?

:shrug:

[unkachuck]

17. a 'suckazoid'....

There once was a suckezoid named Floyd,
He stole money from people he employed,
He spent all the cash electing Republican trash,
So corporate taxes they all could avoid.

Burma Shave

[SoCalDem]

18. Obscurors..n/t

[HillbillyBob]

19. Quisling was actually a mans name, who colluded with the nazis

If I recall he was an official of the Norwegian or Finnish govt.
There I go shooting my mouth off before finishing reading..

We should have nice marketable names for these folk
I m stuck at traitors..

[Bonobo]

21. "Russerts" or "Blitzers" might be a good choice. nt

[grasswire]

22. How about "shrubbers"???

George the elder's nickname when he was a U.S. Congressman was "Rubbers" because he was so high on eugenics and population control.

So he could be Rubbers the Shrubber.

Of course George W. was the ultimate Shrubber, and named "Shrub" by Molly Ivins.